Intelligent Design is not science

**BDC** · 01-19-2006, 18:08

Even according to the Vatican:

"Intelligent design does not belong to science and there is no justification for the demand it be taught as a scientific theory alongside the Darwinian explanation," said the article in the Tuesday edition of [the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano].

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsar...-EVOLUTION.xml

**InsaneApache** · 01-19-2006, 18:09

That's alright then.

**master of the puppets** · 01-19-2006, 18:11

absolutely true, it has no science, there is no details or reason in how got did it, merely "god wanted a bunch o craphead humans runnin about and so it was" there is NO science like that.

**scotchedpommes** · 01-20-2006, 07:06

Surprisingly, something relatively positive.
Though it's unlikely to sway the mobs of the 'faithful'.

**solypsist** · 01-20-2006, 07:12

too bad it's not the the catholics that want ID taught in schools. last time i checked, the majority of conservative christians didn't take their cues from the pope.

**Byzantine Mercenary** · 01-20-2006, 15:07

i used to live near some Plimouth Bretheren who hold the same belief, but I, like most christians accept evolution as a tool used by god. If the parents want their children to be taught the ''theory'' they should teach it to them themselves, i can't help but feel that instead they want ID taught alongside Evolution in order to stengthen their arguments against it.

**Abdel Hakam** · 01-20-2006, 22:33

I am happy for Christianity to hear the Vatican doesn't support this strange notion.

In the Qur'an, God' names is The Creator. He is also named something translatable as The Evolver. It also mentions His creating man in "diverse stages", and that nature is filled with "signs for those possesed of minds" and yet we still have some Muslim creationists.

What the attraction is I don't know. Do they think the TVs in their living room were put there by God without any natural mechanism? It's like they just want God to do everything for them. Probably these beliefs are the result of lazy preachers who don't read thoroughly, the same source of the stupidities done in the name of Islam.

I wonder if there are Jewish creationists? Rabbis seem in general more scholarly and knowledgable in terms of language than the sort of preachers who support creationism, so I would tend to doubt it.

**ajaxfetish** · 01-21-2006, 20:32

Originally Posted by solypsist

too bad it's not the the catholics that want ID taught in schools. last time i checked, the majority of conservative christians didn't take their cues from the pope.

Exactly. The Vatican (at least under John Paul 2) is actually quite open to evolution and science in general. I don't know if that will stay the same under Benedict, but they have nothing to do with the introduction of ID theory and no reason to support it.

Personally I have no problem with ID being taught in a religion course as long as it is kept out of science classes. I might even accept its teaching in a science course as long as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism was taught right alongside it.

Ajax

**Navaros** · 01-22-2006, 22:40

This just goes to further prove that the Catholic Church is an Apostate Church with zero credibility. It does not represent God, Jesus, or anything that is Holy. In fact it has committed the one unforgivable sin with it's ludicrous pro-evoution propaganda: committed blasphemy against the Holy Spirit by saying that the Word of God is a lie.